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It’s going to be a shocking conclusion to be sure. Girls need to pick up guns to get revenge!! Hope the new govt begin wrestling with how women are treated here, and with the underlying inequity...Thanks a lot for being here :)

'HE....Not I...should be ashamed." Yes, this is certainly true. Just this past week on public radio here there was a feature on women in India.

I did follow the link you shared, and I do remember the story of this girl. So tragic. I am glad her family waived their right to anonymity and that her full story has been told. Women deserve better than this...everywhere.

BBC harrowing documentary ‘India’s Daughter’ triggered fresh controversies in India. It featured an interview with one of the men convicted in the gang rape case and it sparked massive outrage and protests in India. So much so, that Delhi court has restrained media from publishing, broadcasting, telecasting or uploading the interview on the internet. But Nirbhaya's father said that everyone should watch the banned documentary. I personally feel...the ban was unnecessary but definitely ..the rapist should not have been given a platform to justify his horrific crime.Thanks for coming by, Mary. :)

yes he should be...it is horrible that some men (and even some women) feel the need to // compulsion to violate another...it can destroy ones self respect/self esteem...any trust they have in another...to come back from that...is quite a fete...

So horrid that the perpetrator don't understand where blame is to be put.. to me just hearing him giving his own views made we want to puke.. and alas it's not only in India... there are men like that everywhere... still..

This control that continues to be exercised over us...whether through a physical rape, mental abuse or the dismissal of our opinions as not important...these all need to change and women honored as human beings....Happy Women's Day and thank you for this important piece.

Raise that palm and fist too along with others! I watched a bit of the perpetrator's interview, but could not bear it. DO these men just laugh as the rest of the world recognizes--slowly--an equality or at least a self-determination for women? But this poem, from beginning to end is an exposure of the sickness and part of the cure. Bravo!